Description

The Catalog resource is the root node and initial entry point
into an ArcGIS Server host. This resource represents a catalog of
folders and services published on the host.

The current version of the server is also returned in the
response (introduced at 9.3.1). The value of the version is a
number such that its value at a future release is guaranteed to be
greater than its value at a previous release.

Resource hierarchy

Request parameters

Parameter

Details

f

Description: The response format. The default response format is html.

Values: html | json | kmz | sitemap | geositemap

Note:

Support for the sitemap and geositemap formats was added at 9.3 SP1.

The sitemap and geositemap formats generate XML sitemaps that can be submitted to various search engines. The sitemap format includes the Services Directory URLs to all your services. The geositemap format includes the KMZ footprint URLs to your map and image services. Note that if you've enabled security, an empty sitemap will be generated.

option

This parameter was added at 10.1.

Description: If option is footprints, footprints of all map, feature, and image services in that folder are returned as a feature collection. This feature collection can be viewed in an arcgis.com map. This is supported when f=json only.

Value: footprints

outSR

This parameter was added at 10.1.

Description: The spatial reference of the geometry returned in footprints. This
parameter is supported only when
option=footprints is specified.